Saturday wasn’t Matt Harvey’s day. The fastballs weren’t locating, the breaking balls weren’t breaking, and against a marginally better lineup, this game might have been out of reach much earlier. It wasn’t. It was the Orioles.
And sometimes, you need the breaks to get you going. Harvey had misfits from the first batter of the game, and when Jonathan Villar doubled and Dwight Smith Jr. homered, you got the sense that it would be one of those runaway starts, where the horse leaves the barn and runs around wildly despite your best efforts to hang onto the rope.